Love and Compassion...

When I was a single I didn’t had any idea about struggles, money, food, clothing etc. I was very blessed to be living with my parents but you see life has to move on. Eventually I found someone and moved in life. The few months seemed all like stars and moon after that life was in reality, I slowly understood that we needed education, money, a good house, food, nice job, clothes and the list kept going still. I think it is very well said by Goddard in his book “Drawing Heaven into your marriage” chapter two that “In every relationship there is an inevitable tension. It is often worse in marriage than other relationships, in part because we share so much- money, time, food, space- even our own bodies. Marriage is not only intense but also can last for decades.

Something that we forget about marriage is “Love, compassion” which can bring husband and wife together and cherish their relationship forever. I would like to quote from Elder Eyring's talk that we all may differ from each other but the gospel of Jesus Christ helps us to live our life better and perfect.

According to my understanding being a member of the church for 13 years, I believe and trust that having love and compassion can lead us have godly attributes by saying prayers in families, as husband and wife going to the temple and keeping those sacred covenants. As a result it leads us as a family to live a perfect life in the Gospel because of the love that we have for the lord and he has for us, because we tend to keep all his commandments and give heed to do our best in this earthly life.

However, All the above reasons helps us cherish our life style of marriage even if it’s challenging.

Love 

Margaret

Love and Kindness....

Love and Kindness is very important in a marital relationship no matter what, I believe love and kindness plays a vital role in strengthening our joy of being together. My husband and I come from a family of broken relationship, separation of parents, divorce situation etc due to not having proper communication, trust, lack of kindness & love.

When I was dating my husband, I am glad that we discussed some important goals and set plans regarding our marriage life should be like. We have no doubts on all the things we talked and made choices, that helped us become be aware of how to mend the relationship. This week preparation material has been a very learning and knowledgeable source to strengthen my marital relationship. I learned that being kind, being a friend, communicating well each other is so important in marriage. Not that I had no idea about it but the video's from John Gottman's, Elder Wirthlin's talk and the fireproof clips gave some real good insights on our daily marital life things that we can mess up and things how we can implement. The past few weeks has been hard for me, as my husband had to work days and night, I felt having a distance in between us with family responsibility, college studies etc. I am glad that the atonement of Christ has made a major change of being humble, and  loving to my companion. I count Elder Wirthlin's talk to be a wonderful counsel that sometimes poetic words, fancy things or romantic things may not take place but we need to remember that through the act of kindness, love and patience may help our relationship as husband and wife to endure to the end.

Love

Margaret

Covenant that leads us to Eternity....

Temple- A house of the Lord.

Hello Everyone, Our World has so much of worldly things that we all easily get distracted and drawn away from those spiritual blessing that can lead us to Heavenly Father's kingdom. Temple is a sacred place where families are bind together not only to this earthly life but to eternity. When husband and wife keep up their sacred covenants made in the temple, they are blessed to have a righteous family. We should prepare our ancestors name to do the ordinances for the deceived. In my family me and my husband are the only to be members of the church, we served mission and understand the importance of having the temple blessing in our family. My husband and I were sealed in the Hong Kong China temple and we feel privileged to have our son born in those covenants. Most of our extended families are non members and do not understand our belief, when I went on a mission I prepared some of my deceived families name for baptism. My participial blessing shares that there will come a day that I will be sealed in the temple with my parents and in order for that I always need to invite them and share with them the Gospel principal. I believe being worthy is very important to enter the house of the Lord and to be worthy means that we as members of the church keep all gods commandments. Some time we forget to keep those small basic commandments such as daily prayer, scripture reading, fasting, paying tithing etc. Small little things can help us build our faith strong and lead us to be a covenant keeper. I know as we do those basic things that lead us to gods righteous path, it will bless us to have a eternal life with our family.

Love

Margaret

Defenders of Marriages

Heavenly Father created Adam and Eve in his image and placed in the garden of Eden. He commanded them to multiply and replenish the earth. Which means that men and women are to be married lawfully and bring children on this earth to learn and grow. This time on this earth to prepare ourselves and return back to Heavenly Father's kingdom. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the key for us endure to the end. Today in the World, we hear so much of corruption of living trend called cohabitation, partner-relationship, same sex marriages and people are denying the true meaning of "marriage". I believe that if we stand firm in obeying God's commandments and living his sacred covenants of marriage, children born in sacred covenants of marriage then all this can lead us become " A disciple of Jesus Christ -Defenders of Marriage"

I promise that all young man and young woman decide and desire to be married, there will be less of same sex marriages, partner relationship. Children will be born the marriage relationship. There will be less of child abuse, and feel the desire to move as a eternal family.

On the other hand, "how would you like to be known by your generation"?. It is important that our life to be an example for others to learn and grow, treasure your memories by living a quality life on this earth. And all this will happen if we all could stand as an defenders of marriage, by living a life as a disciple of Christ.

Love

Margaret

Introduction....

Hello everyone,

My name is Margaret and I am creating this blog for my online course on "Marriage". Although I wont be sharing my perfection but through this course I am excited to share with you all what I get to learn in my real life experience. I am very blessed with a beautiful family consisted of my husband, I and our 2+ year old son. I also excited to implement things that can bless my marital life and help me and my husband become an example to our generations. I truly believe that marriage is not about getting married to a perfect man and women but living that life together towards the perfection. Marriage has given me a lot of responsibility and true meaning of love, compassion, patience and loyalty. hope you all enjoy my blog.

Love

Margaret